May Pow day today 5/3/07

[powder11]

while some jagoffs are producing vile amounts of antistoke on this board, I figured most people would enjoy a refreshing powder skiing TR. Postman and B-Rad picked me up this morning in drizzly pissing down rain. I wasnt too stoked to ski rain, but figured I needed to get out of the house for awhile.

our attitudes changed rapidly as we realized there was 20 new cms of light fluffy pow in the alpine. another reason to never believe the snow report.

B-Rad clearly enjoying the conditions



postman phil awaiting the sun break to drop off a cornice on chainsaw ridge



we finally got our sunny break and all launched from our perches at once

B-Rad maching off the cornice in "Im going really fast" mode



riding back up jersey cream we admired our 3 tracks down bushrat



after lapping chainsaw a few times we set our sites on christmass chute

looking down from christmass at the ants entering saphire bowl below



postman poppin his cherry on christmass



and clearly happy with the terrain



B-Rad getting his presents in christmass chute



grapedrink enjoying christmass in may



B-Rad gettin rad in saphire chutes



all in all another stellar day of spring skiing at Blackcomb.

[grskier]

Nice!

Good May stoke!

[shirk]

hoooooorawwww for May powder.

Saturday can't get here soon enough.


Anyone try that line between 5.0 and Bushrat?

[Bring On The Snow]

I hate you.... Itll all be gone by the time i get there on sunday with no new snow in the forecast

Great Stoke Tho

Also since whistler has closed the snow report apears to be making random numbers up and the live temps seem funky too

[buckethead]

hell yes guys!!
stokalicious

and awesome pics

[Bodhi]

And a kind thank you very well for that one. sir!

And you can thank us back as well--me thinks that was supposed to be our storm...but alas, 'tis been the theme of our season this year.

Nice to see some stoke again!

peace,
D.

[TahoePowShredder]

today was definately a nice surprise. it was more than nice to get out of the house and ski some powdah.

[Atrain505]

hoooooorawwww for May powder.

Saturday can't get here soon enough.


Anyone try that line between 5.0 and Bushrat?

Stoked to be up tommorrow!!
The spine line to cliff drop of all gnar...is what your talking about shirk right? No, but I want to. It scares the shit out of me though. Basically as steep as snow can stick to rock.
If I could get past the broken quebecois/english Boucher was telling me he tumbled down that line a few years ago. This year he stuck it filming with PY. I think thats what he was talking about.

[iskibc]

Did you send some of that down this way?

[Eldo]

Oh yeah! This kind of TR is what the forum is all about.

[IRideCO]

Looks like an amazing day at Blackcomb. Definitely could use some of that for closing at Loveland

[postman22]

Hey Toby way not to tell anyone.....

We basically didn't cross a track all day except to load chairs. We had basically first 6 tracks down Chainsaw, first in Teetering, first 6 tracks (2 runs) down bushrat and first tracks in Christmas Chute. Pretty damn good day

[bklyn]

Very Nice!

[backcountry1pr]

You Bastards!! haha, lucky..

[powder11]

Hey Toby way not to tell anyone.....

We basically didn't cross a track all day except to load chairs. We had basically first 6 tracks down Chainsaw, first in Teetering, first 6 tracks (2 runs) down bushrat and first tracks in Christmas Chute. Pretty damn good day

sorry man, I got home and felt the need to off set some of the garbage being posted lately by sharing the incredible stoke we got today. no worries, we'll have all the lines we didnt ski today tracked out by noon tomorrow

[fiddler]

Most excellent!

[B-RAD]

May sickbird!!! What a first day back after roadtripping for month. Still can't get over how good it was! Pretty sweet snaking dana flahr and his possy on our second bush rat run!!! suckers

[Mofro261]

Excellent to see Blackcomb still going strong! Amazing year you guys have had up there.

[GoNads]

So those were YOUR tracks we were eyeballing from the top of Jersey. Damn. I think I saw you at the top of False Face before the traverse down. My roomate Jenn stacked it en route. Nicely done, its just too bad by the time we got to the drop in by bushrat there were another 15 people there... Oh well. Early bird snags the pow. I already harassed RugbyDave about missing this one, haha. Can't complain about May pow days!

[FiveLarge]

Hopefully a foretelling of good things to come in CO this weekend!

[Squirrel99]

Nice, T.

Wish I could make it up this weekend, but will have to settle for some Alpy slop & tequila.

[Kya]

Yeah, May Powder!!!! Now that is good stoke for sure

[Trackhead]

I hope to bring a similar stoke to this shithole arena tomorrow.

Gotta love the late season dumpage.

[LeeLau]

Rossland was 2 degrees above freezing today and it snowed in town. Can't wait to get a week of glacier loving

[rugbydave]

fuckers, might see you tomorrow though, haven't heard from work yet...